GIRL WHO SHOT TYRANT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17234, 9 August 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

GIRL WHO SHOT TYRANT.

According to a private telegram received by M. Branting, Vera Zassulitch, the prominent Russian revolutionist, d'ed**in Petrograd on May 8. The name of Vera Zassulitch was one of the most celebrated in the annals of the Russian revolutionary movement. Rather more than 40 years ago she, at that time a young girl, shot General Trepoff, chief of the gendapaerie, for having ordered the flogging of a revolutionary. That was the first modem terroristic act in Russia, and not only created an immense sensation, but met with the complete approval of Russian educated .society—so much so that the jury refused to convict her. This was the first and the last time that political offenders were toed in open wart by a* pay.

Mrs. Owen pluckQy : caught the man by the throat, and.pushed him backwards across the room, and thenf tried to secure huh. After a great struggle the man released himself, apparently alarmed bv the appearance of officials, and with a spring jumped clean through the window. Nothing daunted, Mrs. Owen dashed after him, and as he was scaling a brick »~all pulled him to the ground, and, in her own words, "sat on him" until assistance arrived.

Three policemen, together with infirmary officials, eventually got the man back, and he was placed in another padded room. Hardly an hour had elapsed, however, when he again escaped, but he was secured before getting out of the grounds.